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Great find, this looks awesome. Another #1 issue!

thanks for putting these together, @JimJam78. I do love this magazine, but I don't always have the time to look through each one as they release. Thank you for preserving them. When I see your name, I always think it says "JibJab" like the old animated videos from a while back. I keep telling myself, "No, that's not the guy who makes those. Don't be a dork and mention it to them." But I had to finally say something.

thanks for putting these together, @MigJmz. I haven't had the time to check out all your newest releases, but I do love this magazine. Thank you for preserving them since you don't really see videogame related magazines much anymore. Take care.

Thank you, @Argus for the work it took to make this. I don't remember this one on newsstands so it's nice to see it now. Thanks for taking the time to preserve it for all of us.

Yeah, Gregg Off, Dave Winding, Eric Winding, David Castillo -- I followed a lot of their projects. GameFan, Dimension-3, and Q64. Another group I loved was from the later issues of Game Players (1993). Bill Burchell (?), Frank O'Conner and the others had a lot of fun during that run. Their humor was great.

yippie, I wasnt expecting any on the weekend. A nice surprise for us all.

I am SOOO happy. Another great issue with some promise that #50 will be huge. We have a big interview with Insomniac Games, and a review of Spyro: Riptor's Rage. We also got reviews of Medal of Honor (all ps1 games), Quake 2, Test Drive 6, Pong, Army Men Air Attack, Rat Attack, Shadow Tower, GTA 2 (plus interview), Dukes of Hazard, and 9 sports titles. Every game gets at least a full-page review, with some getting a 2-page spread. We are getting to the end of the big PS1 games by this point. Some coming up are things like Twisted Metal 4 and Cool Boarders 4, not bad games, but after yearly installments they are getting a bit stale. Great quality scan, worth a download.

This is a great issue for First-Person Shooter fans. PowerSlave (ps1), Tenka (ps1), Turok (n64), Doom 64 (n64, Doom (sat), and Hexen (sat) -- with many games having a 2-page layout beside the small review page strip., There are a number of previews, like Wild Arms, Rally Cross, Vandal Hearts, City of Lost Children, and Broken Helix. They review Fighter's MegaMix (sat) which NEVER got ported to another console, and Soviet Strike on the Saturn. So much content, including reviews of many Japan versions of games, like Enemy Zero, and Shining the Holy Ark, Toukon Retsuden 2. We even have a look at the Battle Arena Toshinden anime movie. A very high-quality scan as well. Superb layouts and color balance. This is GameFan at its best. There's also a preview for one of my favorite games, Sentient (ps1), a game I bought cheap. I walked around a space station, I pushed some buttons on a wall panel, and I couldn't figure what to do. Then 5 mins later, the whole station BLOWS UP. I never went back, but I like to think my actions actually killed everybody. It was probably scripted, but who knows. I just never got back to the game. One day, perhaps.

This issue is a great one to look at for nostalgia. There is a special, VR-MindGames, that looks at the VR technology at the time, and they even show the Jaguar VR. Surf Ninjas (game gear) has 3 pages, but it looks nothing like the game the kid plays in the movie itself. Bram Stoker's Dracula (sega cd) has a nice glimpse, you get 4 pages on Bart's Nightmare (gen), 4 pages on Wing Commander: The Secret Missions (snes), and coverage on Last Action Hero (game gear). A good portion of the mag is fighting games, which is understandable for the time. The quality of the scan is great, very clean pages, very crisp. The colors really pop in many of the ads.

I want to thank you again, @bogusfrank. Those early issues have more than enough detail so you can zoom in and read the text at a very comfortable distance from the screen. We can also see the full quality of the game screenshots, to the point where we can notice flaws in the original capture. So cool. I always wanted to order back issues back in the day, which they let you do for at least the first three years or so. But I think they were JUST as expensive as the newsstand price, but I did get 2 of them. But now, I can finally see them all. Thanks again.

This was a GREAT early issue. Reviews for Might & Magic 2 (snes), D&D Warriors of the Eternal Sun (gen), Pool of Radiance (nes), Knight Quest (gameboy), and I remember renting and playing Super Battletank Return to the Gulf War (snes) a few times, which is also reviewed. Also, good work RetroMags -- the file has exactly 69 pages. Nice... nice.

Thanks for this rescan, @E-Day. I honestly have no interest in the more modern Game Informer publication, but these early ones from the 90s is a nice little time capsule. Oh, and I just noticed the Retromags website font being changed to the Game Informer font -- chef's kiss, as they say.

I was always fascinated by the NES game, Space Shuttle Project, which they review here and has a 2-page ad. It probably wasn't very good, but I read this review so many times anyway. I never came across a used copy at a GameSpot, but I remember looking for a few years. I forgot about it eventually, but going through this issue brought those memories back. Thank you, @bogusfrank for helping with that. Maybe I will seek out a ROM and try the game on an emulator.

Thanks for these. As a kid I had the first 5 issues in order, and I remember looking through them all the time -- it was one of the few mags I had. They were small, but I would read them through like three times a day. I always had them around, but I couldn't find them about 10 years ago, so it's great they are preserved.

I was download #2, I'm here for ya buddy. Go get'em.